A trial of five former members of the Hitler SS who served in Italy opened today before a jury court in Osnabrueck. The defendants are charged with murdering some 70 Jewish men, women and children, aged 11 to 75, at Lake Magiore, Italy, and tossing their bodies into the water.
A former SS general who was charged with war crimes two years ago but released without trial, has been admitted to practice law in the Westerland Court in Schlesburg by the Ministry of Justice of Schleswig-Holstein. The former general and police chief, Heinz Reinerfarth, gave orders to suppress the Warsaw uprising of 1944 when Russian armies were pursuing the Germans over the Polish frontier. The uprising was not connected with the Warsaw ghetto revolt two years earlier.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
